Fender for cars and other vehicles.



PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906.

G. HIPWOOD.

FENDER FOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1905.

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G. HIPWOOD.

FENDER FOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1905.

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FENDER FOR CARS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 24, 1905. Serial No. 266,821.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

-l'0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE HIPWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing in La conia, in the county of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fenders for Cars or other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fenders adapted particularly for use on street-cars and other vehicles propelled by electricity, cable, or other power aside from horse-power; and it relates more especially to the general style or class of fender illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States granted October 31, 1893, numbered 507,655; granted April 13, 1897, numbered 580,549; granted January 4, 1898, numbered 596,592; granted September 19,1899,nurnbered 633,631; granted January 1, 1901, numbered 664,863, and granted June 16, 1903, numbered 730,913, to which reference is made.

It is found in some cases where surface cartracks are located directly under the tracks of an elevated road which is supported by posts or pillars situated on opposite sides of the surface tracks that the bases which support the pillars are so thick and broad that on certain sharp curvesas where the tracks connect the car-house with the street, for examplethe front edge of the fender, even when the fender is disposed as far as possible under the car, projects to one side sufliciently beyond the outer edge of the curved track to strike said bases, which are usually of stone and much thicker than the iron posts which they support.

It is the object of this invention or irnprovement to obviate this difliculty by providing means whereby the fender may be when folded slid under the car for such a distance that it cannot project beyond the curvature of the track to such an extent as to strike one of these bases or supports and cannot extend beyond or even as fardas the front end of the car-body when said fender has been folded and slid under the car to its fullestextent.

The nature of this invention is fully described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved fender applied to a car and slid and locked under it until its front edge is at about the front edge of the car. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the fender slid under the car to its fullest extent. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail taken on line :20 :20, Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

1 represents a portion of the floor of the car; 2, the sills 3, the platform; 4, the bumper; 5, the dashboard, and 6 a portion of the track. Supporting-hangers 7 extend down vertically from the sills and support on opposite sides of the car horizontal rails 8. Each said rail, supports a frame or plate 9 by means of rolls or wheels 10 and 11 on the upper and lower edges of the plate, eachsaid plate being provided with a downwardly and outwardly extending plate or frame 12, which supports at 13 the horizontal portion 14 of the fender, provided at its front edge with a series of shoes 15, provided on their under sides with rollers 16. Pivotally connected with the rear edge of the main portion 14 is the vertically swinging portion or bumper-guard 17.

None of the above-named parts are new in this application, but have been fully described in some of the Letters Patent above referred to and particularly in Letters Patent numbered 730,913, to which reference is made. Their operation is fully described in the last-named patent and needs no detailed description here.

The rails 8 instead of being rigidly secured to the hangers 7 (as in the invention described in Letters Patent numbered 730,913) are connected with the hangers by means of the pins or bolts 18, which extend into horizontal slots 19 in said hangers, and the stops 20 at the rear end of said rails are provided with upward extensions 21. An arm 22, provided with a hole 23 near its outer end, is hinged at 24 to the sill 2 on each side, the upper end of said arm being provided with a hook-shaped extension 25, which bears upwardly against a horizontal pin 26, extending from the sill. These arms are located exactly above the rolls or wheels 10.

In operation when the fender is moved back horizontally into the position indicated in Fig. 1 the rails 8 do not move; but the fender slides back by means of the rolls or wheels 10 and 11. In Fig. 1, therefore, the fender is locked in position with its front edge near or perhaps projecting beyond the front edge of the car-body, and as the fender is locked so are also the rails 8 by means of the swinging arms 22, which fall by gravity into engagement with the extensions 21 on the rails. der so far under the car as to avoid any possibility while it passes over a curved track of its striking the bases of the pillars which support the elevated tracks or any other obstruction which would be dangerously near the fender if it were in the position indicated in Fig. 1 a further rearward push on the fender causes the rolls 11 to engage the bars 20 and push the rails 8 rearward, the rolls 1O lifting the arms 22 out of engagement with said bars, and the bars 8 (with the fender supported thereby) are thus slid rearward until the forward ends of their slots 19 come into contact with the pins or bolts 18, as indicated in Fig. 3, the arms 22 meantime being supported by the rolls 10, which move under them. Then to extend the fender out into operative position in front of the car it is drawn forward until the rolls 10 engage the ment of the fender back under the car for safety is equal to the length of the slots 19.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. In a fender of the character described, substantially horizontal supporting-rails sustained by and under the car-body and adapt ed to slide horizontally with relation to the car-body; and a fender sustained by the supporting-rails and adapted to slide horizontally under the car with relation to said rails, whereby the available rearward movement of the fender under and with relation to the car-body comprises the sum of the possible movement of the fender with relation to the supporting-rails and the possible movement of the supporting-rails with relation to the carbody. 2. In a fender of the character described, substantially horizontal supporting-rails sustained by and under the car-body and adapted to slide horizontally with relation to the car-body; a fender sustained by the supporting-rails and adapted to slide horizontally under the car with relation to said rails, whereby the available rearward movement of the fender under and with relation to the car-body comprises the sum of the possible movement of the fender with relation to the supporting-rails and the possible'movement of the supporting-rails with relation to the car-body; and mechanism for detachably locking the supporting-rails at the extreme Now if it is desired to move the fen V siojies forward ends of their possible movement, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a fender of the character described, hangers secured to and extending from the under side of the car-body; substantially horizontal supporting-rails provided with longitudinal slots 19 means intermediate of the hangers and supporting-rails and extending into said slots, whereby said supporting-rails are slidingly connected with and sustained by the hangers; and a fender sustained by the supporting-rails and adapted to slide horizontally under the car with relation to said rails, whereby the available rearward movement of the fender under and with relation to the car-body comprises the sum of the possible movement of the fender with relation to the supporting-rails and the possible movement of the supporting-rails with relation to the car-body.

4. In a fender of the character described, hangers secured to and extending from the under side of the carbody; substantially horizontal supporting-rails provided with longitudinal slots 19; means intermediate of the hangers and supporting-rails and extending into said slots whereby said supporting-rails are slidingly connected with and sustained by the hangers; mechanism for detachably locking the supporting-rails at the extreme forward ends of their possible movement; and a fender sustained by the supportingrails and adapted to slide horizontally under the car with relation to said rails, whereby the available rearward movement of the fender under and with relation to the car-body comprises the sum of the possible movement of the fender with relation to the supportingrails and the possible movement of the supporting-rails with relation to the car-body.

5. In a fender of the character described, hangers secured to and extending from the under side of the car-body; the substantially horizontal supporting-rails 8 provided with longitudinal slots 19 whereby said rails are slidingly connected with and sustained by the hangers; a folding fender supported slidingly by said rails by means of suitable rolls or wheels moving on the rails; projections extending up from the rear portions of the supporting-rails; and swinging arms pro- 'vided with holes near their outer ends, pivotally supported by the car-body and adapted to extend down over and in the path of the upper wheels or rolls, and to engage with the projections by means of said holes, sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HIPWOOD.

lVitnesses:

GEORGE A. COLLINs, PARK R. How.

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